This is an incomplete list of musical pieces composed in the twelve-tone technique and pieces that use serialism.

List of musical pieces composed in the twelve-tone technique

  • Second Viennese School
  • Alban Berg
  • Kammerkonzert, for piano, violin, and winds (1923–25)
  • Lyrische Suite, for string quartet (1925/26)
  • Der Wein, concert aria for soprano and orchestra after a poem by Charles Baudelaire (1929)
  • Lulu, opera after Die Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind (1928–35)
  • Violinkonzert, for violin and orchestra (1935)
  • Hanns Eisler
  • Palmström, song cycle op. 5 (1923/24)
  • Zeitungsausschnitte (Newspaper Clippings), song cycle op. 11 (1926)
  • "14 Arten den Regen zu beschreiben" (1940, for the 1929 short documentary Regen)
  • Klavierstück, op. 33b
  • Moses und Aron (incomplete)
  • Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene [Accompanying music to a film scene], op. 34
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 36
  • String Quartet No. 4, op. 37
  • Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, op. 42
  • String Trio, op. 45
  • A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46
  • Fantasy for Violin & Piano, op. 47
  • Anton Webern
  • Three Lieder, op. 17 (1924–1925)
  • Three Lieder, for voice, E flat clarinet and guitar, op. 18 (1925)
  • Two Lieder, for mixed choir, celesta, guitar, violin, clarinet and bass clarinet, op. 19 (1926)
  • String Trio, op. 20 (1927)
  • Symphony, op. 21 (1928)
  • Quartet for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano, op. 22 (1930)
  • Three Songs on Hildegard Jone's Viae inviae, for voice and piano, op. 23 (1934)
  • Concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and piano, op. 24 (1934)
  • Three Lieder on texts by Hildegard Jone, for voice and piano, op. 25 (1934–35)
  • Das Augenlicht, for mixed choir and orchestra, on a text by Hildegard Jone, op. 26 (1935)
  • Variations, for solo piano, op. 27 (1936)
  • String Quartet, op. 28 (1937–38) – the tone row of this piece is based around the BACH motif
  • Cantata No. 1, for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra, op. 29 (1938–39)
  • Variations, for orchestra, op. 30 (1940)
  • Cantata No. 2, for soprano, bass, choir and orchestra, op. 31 (1941–43)

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  • Milton Babbitt
  • Virtually all published works after 1947
  • John Cage
  • Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
  • Carlos Chávez
  • Soli II for wind quintet (1961)
  • Variations for Violin and Piano (1961)
  • Lou Harrison
  • Rapunzel (1952)
  • Symphony on G (1952)
  • Josef Matthias Hauer
  • All works written after August 1919 (though the twelve-tone technique used is not Schoenberg's system)
  • Zwölftonspiele (approximately one thousand works) (after 1940)
  • Eunice Katunda
  • Quatro Epígrafes (1948) for piano
  • Homenagem a Schoenberg (1949) for clarinet, viola, cello, and piano
  • Ernst Krenek
  • Karl V
  • Maurice Le Roux
  • 2 pieces dodecaphoniques, pour piano seul (1945/46)
  • Luigi Nono
  • Composizione no.1, for orchestra (1951)
  • Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op. 41 di A. Schönberg, for chamber orchestra (1950)
  • Walter Piston
  • Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, for organ
  • Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
  • Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Symphony No. 8
  • Roger Sessions
  • Virtually all published works after 1953 (exceptions include his Mass, and the twelve-tone technique used rarely follows Schoenberg's system)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Drei Lieder for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Nr. (1950)
  • Sonatine, for violin and piano, Nr. (1951)
  • Igor Stravinsky, works from 1952 forward:
  • Cantata (1952)
  • Three Songs From Shakespeare (1953)
  • In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954)
  • Canticum Sacrum (1955)
  • Agon (1957)
  • Threni (1958)
  • Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1958–59)
  • A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (1961)
  • The Flood (1962)
  • The Dove Descending Breaks the Air (1962)
  • Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam (1963–64)
  • Requiem Canticles (1966)
  • Van der Graaf Generator
  • "After the Flood" (1970, from the album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other) – includes a twelve tone piece<!--What is the piece that Jackson arranged, and who wrote it? The actual composer should be given credit here, rather than the band who happened to include it on an album.--> arranged by David Jackson
  • Egon Wellesz
  • Symphony No. 5, Op. 75 (1955–56)
  • Charles Wuorinen
  • Most mature works
  • Frank Zappa
  • Waltz for Guitar (1958)

List of pieces that use serialism

Organized by composer:

  • Tadeusz Baird
  • Cassazione per orchestra (1956)
  • String Quartet (1957)
  • Four Essays (1958)
  • Erotyki (1961)
  • Jean Barraqué
  • ... Au delà du hasard (premier "commentaire" de "Affranchi du hasard" et du "Temps restitué") for four instrumental groups and one vocal group (1958–59)
  • Chant après chant for six percussionists, voice and piano (1966)
  • Concerto for six instrumental groups and two solo instruments (vibraphone and clarinet) (1962–68)
  • Étude for 3-track tape (1952–53)
  • Séquence for voice, percussion and chamber ensemble (1950–55)
  • Sonata for Piano (1950–52)
  • Le Temps restitué for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1956–68)
  • Pierre Boulez
  • Anthèmes, for violin solo (1991/94)
  • Anthèmes II, for violin and live electronics (1997)
  • Cummings ist der Dichter, for chorus and ensemble (1970/1986)
  • Dérive 1, for six instruments (1984)
  • Dérive 2, for eleven instruments (1988/2002/2006)
  • Domaines, for clarinet solo or for clarinet and six instrumental groups (1968)
  • Études (2), musique concrète (1951–52)
  • ...explosante-fixe...
  • for flute, clarinet, and trumpet (1971–72)
  • for flute, clarinet, trumpet, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello, and electronics (1973–74)
  • version for vibraphone and electronics (1986)
  • for solo MIDI flute, two "shadow" flutes, chamber orchestra, and electronics (1991–93)
  • version for vibraphone and electronics (1986)
  • Figures—Doubles—Prismes, for orchestra (1957–58/1964/1968)
  • Improvisé—pour le Dr. K, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello (1969; revised 2005)
  • Incises, for piano (1994/2001)
  • Livre, for string quartet (1948); two movements reworked for string orchestra (1968/1989)
  • Le marteau sans maître (1955–57)
  • Messagesquisse, for solo cello and six cellos (1976)
  • Notations
  • for piano (1945)
  • I–IV and VII for orchestra (1978–1984/1997)
  • Poésie pour pouvoir, for tape and 3 orchestras (1955/58, withdrawn)
  • Polyphonie X (1950–51)
  • Sonata No. 1, for piano (1946)
  • Sonata No. 2, for piano (1947–48)
  • Sonata No. 3, for piano (1958–63, unfinished)
  • Pli selon pli (1957–62)
  • Répons, for six soloists, chamber orchestra, and live electronics (1981–84)
  • Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna, for large chamber ensemble in eight groups (1974–75)
  • Sonatine, for flute and piano (1946)
  • Structures, book I for two pianos (1952)
  • Structures, book II for two pianos (1961)
  • Sur incises, for 3 pianos, 3 harps, and 3 mallet percussion instruments (1996/1998)
  • Jacques Calonne
  • Orbes for orchestra (1965)
  • Benjamin Frankel
  • Film score for The Prisoner (1955, starring Alec Guinness)
  • Alexander Goehr
  • Piano Sonata (1952)
  • The Deluge (1958)
  • Jerry Goldsmith
  • Freud (1962)

See also

  • List of atonal compositions
  • List of tone rows and series

References